Miscellaneous

Observed in the United States on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day honors those who died in the armed forces. Many cities in the United States have claimed to be the originators of Memorial Read more…

We at PA Digital are wrapping up our work with our generous Knight Grant subaward from the DPLA for 2017. The funding from the Knight Grant allowed us to expand our outreach to potential contributors Read more…

Today marks PA Digital’s first anniversary as a live service hub to the Digital Public Library of America! In the last year, we have worked with institutions all over the state of Pennsylvania to expose Read more…

As you may already know if you follow us (@PADigitalNews) or the Digital Public Library of America (@dpla) on Twitter, the DPLA collaborated with Europeana, DigitalNZ, and Trove last month to hold their annual GIF Read more…

A little over a year and a half ago, the PA Digital Founders Group first met in Philadelphia to discuss the potential for a Pennsylvania hub for the Digital Public Library of America. As of April Read more…

  We received word that our Service Hub application was accepted.  Stay tuned for more information and read about all four new Service Hubs, including Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin: http://dp.la/info/2015/08/28/dpla-welcomes-four-new-service-hubs-to-our-growing-network/

Pennsylvania DPLA aggregator prototype: 136,419 records from 157 collections and 29 PA institutions  As part of the efforts to start building a Pennsylvania DPLA hub, we have recently completed a PA DPLA aggregator prototype: http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator/ Read more…

Pennsylvania Library Leaders Announce New Initiative to Increase Access to Commonwealth’s Digital Collections Efforts to make digital collections held by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, and related cultural heritage organizations widely and freely available via the web are underway. In August 2014, a state- wide group of library leaders from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries/the State Library, Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the University of Scranton, Access  Pennsylvania/HSLC, the Keystone Library Network, the Interlibrary Delivery Service of Pennsylvania, Scranton Public Library, and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium  convened to explore opportunities and interest in collaborating to this end. The first step is the appointment of the PA-DPLA Planning Group, which is working to establish a Pennsylvania hub   on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). (more…)